#10: Carthage teams up with ARI Athletics for their recruiting and athlete management software. (link) |
#9: SUNY Fredonia will cut 13 degree programs as it still faces a $10M budget shortfall. (link) |
#8: Lake Forest Women’s Volleyball HC Katie Rueffer steps down after four years. (link) |
#7: Wittenberg Field Hockey HC Bronwen Gainsford will exit for other opportunities. (link) |
#6: Carroll Women’s Soccer HC Taylor Clarke steps down after one season to assume the same post at Eastern Michigan (DI). (link) |
#5: PAC Commissioner Joe Onderko chats with The Add/Drop Podcast about the league’s presidential leadership, what that offers, higher education and more. Onderko credits the league’s CEOS with allowing the PAC to remain nimble, adding: “That's really one of the things that differentiates us from a lot of Division III conferences. We’re the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for a reason. Our college presidents, the executives that run our schools, are really actively involved in oversight of this conference, probably more so than your average DIII conference. There's a much higher percentage of ADs in our league that report directly to the president than your average DIII conference. […] I think, in a way, it's allowed us to protect the student-athlete experience. It's allowed us to kind of carve out a nice little niche here in a very relatively small geographic footprint around the Pittsburgh region in western Pennsylvania. I look at the number of athletes that we have, the media coverage we have, in a lot of ways we've never been in a stronger position than we are right now.” On the looming enrollment cliff, Onderko says a condensed state like Pennsylvania with 60 DIIIs requires members to look beyond the local radius, stating: “You better start looking places outside of the 100 mile radius outside of your campus, if you want to stay in business. I think we've seen a much higher percentage of our student bodies be student-athletes over the past 10 years progressively and we’re drawing from a much, much larger geographic area.” (link)
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#4: Guilford has been placed for probation “for good cause” by SACSCOC after two years on probation. President Kyle Farmbry noting the move comes as the college experienced a cyberattack last year that impacted expenses. (link)
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#3: The MIAA is the first DIII league to partner with Athlete Network. (link) |
#2: Connecticut College taps Wheaton (MA) Asst. AD Kaylyn Smith as Assoc. AD/SWA. (link) |
#1: Hanover will hire a new VP for Athletics. Provost/VP for Academic Affairs Carey Adams will chair the search committee. No word on how the move will impact AD/Asst. Professor of Health & Fitness Lynn Hall. (link)
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